To mark their 30th anniversary, FAMILIE FLÖZ is coming to the Berliner Ensemble with a world premiere.

Once an experiment, now a widely traveled and celebrated theater troupe, FAMILIE FLÖZ has been revitalizing the art of mask theater and telling wordless stories for decades. They find greatness in the minutiae, giving a stage to the tragicomic failures of lovingly created characters.

But there is another core in the work of FAMILIE FLÖZ - the audience.

This is why FAMILIE FLÖZ will begin their new play not only in the audience, but with the audience.

An often-asked question - where do the bizarre characters in these wordless stories actually come from? - becomes a practical experimental setup.
Welcome to the birth canal!
Living beings emerge from inert material.
How is that possible?
How does a story begin?
What does the story reveal about the narrator?
What happens between the stage and the audience?
And what happens when we put on a mask?

In FAMILIE FLÖZ's new play, three small universes emerge from nowhere. The Flöz characters devote themselves to their everyday worries, and three stories are born, held together by a narrator who is as speechless as he is incomprehensible.

The owner of a night convenience shop in the city, who, true to the motto of "I cost you nothing," goes the extra mile for the needs of his diverse customers. But running his business comes with a personal risk. Little by little, his own story is revealed.

A man's mother is terminally ill, throwing his life off track. The hospital becomes the focal point of his identity crisis.

A young woman searches for meaning by escaping to live in harmony with nature, but her apparent idyll in a remote forest cabin harbors dark secrets.

Three people, each at a turning point in their lives. Everything they once knew is crumbling around them. Abysses are opening.
What will save them?

After 30 years together, FAMILIE FLÖZ is dedicating FINALE (an overture) to their audience.